Flat

WORK IN PROGRESS!!

Laravel 5 package for creating multi-tenant apps. As of right now only Postgresql Schemas and SQLite Databases are supported.

Install

Install via composer with the command:

composer require gpopoteur/flat

Then register the provider in the config/app.php file:

'GPopoteur\Flat\FlatServiceProvider',

After that you can start using the Flat API! :)

The Database driver used by flat will be the same one specified in config/database.php, meaning the same that you are using for your application.

Usage

You can inject the dependency with Laravel IoC container:

public function __contruct(Flat $flat){
    // business logic
}

Or just let the App::make() resolve the class.

$flat = App::make('GPopoteur\Flat\Flat');

Creating a new Flat

To create a new Flat (Tenant), just call the build($name) method of the Flat class passing the new Tenant name.

$flat->build('new-tenant');

After you create a new tenant, the new Schema is not automatically migrated, to run the migrations just run:

$flat->migrate('new-tenant');

or, if migrating several tenants at once, pass an array with the tenants names:

$flat->migrate(['new-tenant', 'other-tenant', 'and-another']);

Changing Flats (Tenants)

To change the Tenant programatically you can call the moveIn($name) method of the Flat API.

$flat->moveIn('new-tenant');

There is a middleware implemented called FlatCheckInMiddleware, basically what it does is to take the name of the variable flatName and change the user to that Schema.

To register this middleware you need to add the following line to the $routeMiddleware variable in the app/Http/Kernel.php file:

'flatCheckIn' => 'GPopoteur\Flat\Middleware\FlatCheckInMiddleware'

and you should be ready to go.

Example:

Subdomain tenant

To be able to do a subdomain tenant, just add a flatName variable and the flatCheckIn middleware to your domain route group.

Route::group(['domain' => '{flatName}.domain.com', 'middleware' => 'flatCheckIn'], function(){

    // everything inside this closure will be done in the `flatName` schema.

});

Route name tenant

Because the flatName variable is assigned in the route, you can add that variable to any route group that fits your need, example:

Route::group(['prefix' => 'account/{flatName}', 'middleware' => 'flatCheckIn'], function(){

    // everything inside this closure will be done in the `flatName` schema.

});

When using the provided Middlewares, if a tenant doesn't exists the middleware will throw a new FlatDoesntExistsException that you can catch globally in the app and then redirect the user somewhere and show then a nice error message.

Contributing

Contributions to the library are more than welcome. To contribute code to this repo, follow this simple steps:

1. Fork this project.
2. Create a new branch. Ex: feature/this-thing
3. Commit & Push the changes to your repo.
4. Do a Pull Request from your branch to the develop branch of this repo.

Thanks :)

Disclaimer

Because this package works with the database, and the data is the more critical part of a production app I make the following statement:

I am not responsible in any way for any harm that this library does to your data. This package comes as-is. Use at your own risk.

License

MIT